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In Praise of Slowth: or The Agathotopian Treatment of the Environment as a Common National Asset

In: Liberty, Equality and Efficiency

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  • J. E. Meade

    (University of Cambridge)

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In 1955 my wife founded a society which she called SPES or ‘The Society for the Promotion of Economic Slowth’. Its purposes was to spread a ray of hope in a world in which the physical environment was being pillaged and in which the social and political environment urged us all to strive to possess a number of goods which we did not really need and which we packaged and dissipated in the most wasteful manner. The society has flourished with its valuable, indeed unique, membership; and I am now myself faced with the difficult decision whether I should apply for membership with, I admit, the ambition of becoming its economic adviser.

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  • J. E. Meade, 1993. "In Praise of Slowth: or The Agathotopian Treatment of the Environment as a Common National Asset," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Liberty, Equality and Efficiency, chapter 6, pages 234-248, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13084-9_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13084-9_6
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